Standards movement shifts toward GS1 version
Hospital Materials Management, March 1, 2009
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Our industry appears to be in the middle of a resurgence of interest in supply chain standards. This is curious, as the standards themselves have existed for many years, and calls for reform have gone unheeded before. Why the change now? Standards are common ways of identifying products, trading partners, and locations within the medical supply chain. Such standards have been widely used on the vendor side of the industry for many years, but largely eschewed by the provider community. The electronic transmission of data, which on any broad scale requires the use of standards, largely benefits the
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